Hurdegaryp wrote:Ethel mermania wrote:the problem is he missed something big in his project, and his window to get it done is this weekend. the next window, well we dont know when it will be, senior mangement doesnt take kindly when we have to shut down train sevice, service was going down anyway so he was planning on piggybacking on the project. this was the technical sign off meeting, and we couldnt sign off.
Maybe your response was not the most diplomatic one, but it might actually be legitimate. That is, as far as I understand the context.
it was, and that is kind of the problem. he wanted to go over our heads, which is fine, my job is to say no, its the chiefs job to say yes. but the groups chief would laugh him out of his office. which is what i told him.